Damian Thompson is Editor of Telegraph Blogs and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He was once described by The Church Times as a "blood-crazed ferret". He is on Twitter as HolySmoke. His latest book is The Fix: How addiction is taking over your world. He also writes about classical music for The Spectator.

The attitude problem of the Bishops of England and Wales

I've just had root canal treatment, so forgive me if I keep this brief. Reading Australian Bishop Peter Elliott's magnificent exposition of the Ordinariate plan, I thought (as did many of you): why don't we hear similarly imaginative responses from the Bishops of England and Wales? Here are two of my fears. Do you share them?

1. The English and Welsh bishops fundamentally don't like the Ordinariate scheme, so will come up with the least they can get away with.

2. Some English and Welsh dioceses are, right now, compiling statistics for the Vatican that are designed to play down the impact of Summorum Pontificum.

I just hope the Congregations for the Doctrine of the Faith and Divine Worship know what they are up against: a hierarchy essentially out of sympathy with the Holy Father's radicalism.